1. Thanks, Alrik, for opening this thread!

2. I wonder whether I understood this correctly:
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There is a form of third person narrative that blends with the first person narrative - where the protagonist is effectively writing in the third person.

Exhausted the man stumbled through the jungle. "I wonder, where the hell I am", he thought, "And why, for God's sake, did I have to parachute from a perfectly working airplane". But there was nobody to answer his questions.

Is this, more or less, what you wanted to describe?

In times of crisis it is of the utmost importance not to lose your head (Marie Antoinette)